Your Memories Can’t Hurt You

Your memories can’t hurt you – It’s the emotions attached to them that are the issue.

Emotions are generated in response to life experiences. Ideally, they are experienced, processed and flow through us to a resolution. Whether it’s grief, joy, awe or hurt, these are not normally static states.

It’s like when you’ve stubbed your bare baby toe on a piece of furniture. There’s a boom of shock. You’re mad at yourself, the furniture, the pain, and everything else in that moment. Your subconscious mind then processes the emotion. Allowing it to flow through and evaporate. Now you own the valuable knowledge from this experience without carrying the shock and pain. The point has been made and the emotional charge is no longer helpful.

When this process is not completed and emotional charges get stuck, a whole train of mental, emotional, and physical processes are set in motion. Your subconscious mind doesn’t understand the difference between past, present, and future. To it, unresolved emotions are always “in the now” and powerfully affect you in so many ways.

Fortunately, there are gentle, natural, and powerful therapies to unhook these unresolved emotions from our life experiences. Whether big or small. Allowing the flow-through processes to be safely completed and freeing the knowledge from the experiences to become part of our life toolbox. Enhancing our resiliency.